A post on Oliver Willis' blog, "Flashback: 1987 Ad From People for the American Way vs. Bork" put me in mind of a quotation from the judge that I remember reading not long after his confirmation hearing debacle. I mention this quote in my comment, the first one in the discussion...
When I was in grad school, one of the physics dept. profs had a selection of quotes taped to his door, and one of them had to do with Borks’s view on science policy. Something to the general effect of "Scientists don’t have a right to investigate a damn thing we smart lawyers don’t want them to investigate." It was very annoying and scary for a future scientist. I have tried on several occasions to google Bork and science but have had little luck in finding it (of course, this was before the days of Google or even consciousness of the Internet among the general public).
My admittedly hazy memory of this now 20-year-old citation is that the main sense of Bork's comment was that scientific inquiry wasn't a "protected" activity mentioned in the Constitution and so scientific inquiry and writing could be regulated or censored in ways that other forms of speech, especially political speech, could not be.
Now, I mention having had difficulty finding the quote via online search in the past, so of course the blog's resident wingnut trolls are accusing me of making it up. So now my dander is up at basically being called a fantasist, on top of the niggling years-long memory making me want to find the exact reference.
Having met with little success myself, I thought I'd appeal to the great left-wing mind collective, some of whom may have been much more closely involved with the Bork opposition than I, a mere undergraduate at the time. Any Kossack out there who might have a better recollection of this and who could provide a reference for the citation, any help would be greatly appreciated!